Research Guides: African American Studies: African American Genealogy

African American Genealogy Online Resources

The following links provide information about African American genealogical online resources.

National Archives, Genealogy: Ethnic Heritage
The National Archive provides a list of online resources that the researcher of African American genealogy will find helpful.
Kentucky Genealogy
Access Genealogy provides resources for genealogy records for African Americans in Kentucky.

Genealogical Resources in WKU Libraries

The following links provide information about African American political movements in U.S. history.

Finding a Place Called Home by Dee Parmer Woodtor
Call Number: Glasgow Library Stacks (E185.96 .W69 1999 )
ISBN: ISBN037540595X
Publication Date: 1999-02-09
Generations Past by Sandra M. Lawson (Compiled by)
Call Number: Helm-Cravens Library Federal LC 1.12/2:Af 8/4
ISBN: ISBN084440604X
Publication Date: 1988-01-01
Afro-American Genealogy Sourcebook by Tommie M. Young
Call Number: Helm-Cravens Library Stacks (E185.96 .Y67 1987 )
ISBN: ISBN0824086848
Publication Date: 1987-03-01
Black Genesis by James M. Rose; Alice Eichholz
Call Number: Special Collections Reference (Non-Circulating) CS21 .R57 2003
ISBN: ISBN0806317353
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
A Genealogist's Guide to Discovering Your African-American Ancestors by Franklin Carter Smith; Emily Anne Croom
Call Number: Special Collections Reference (Non-Circulating) CS47 .S647 2008
ISBN: ISBN9780806317885
Publication Date: 2008-09-01
African American Genealogical Sourcebook by Paula K. Byers (Editor)
Call Number: Special Collections Reference (Non-Circulating) E185.96 .A444 1995
ISBN: ISBN0810392267
Publication Date: 1995-03-01
Finding Your African American Ancestors by David T. Thackery
Call Number: Special Collections Stacks (Non-Circulating) E185.96 .T425 2000
ISBN: ISBN0916489906
Publication Date: 2001-01-01

Kentucky African American Genealogical Resources in WKU Libraries

This page provides information about African American genealogy from a variety of Kentucky counties that are cataloged in WKU Libraries.

Civil War African American soldiers from Taylor and Green counties, Kentucky : in the 5th United States Colored Cavalry and the 107th and 108th Colored Infantry by Betty J Gorin (Betty Jane)
Call Number: Special Collections Reference (Non-Circulating) (E585.A35 C58x 2009 )
Publication Date: 2009
Barren County, Kentucky, African-American marriage index, 1866-1932 by Michelle Bartley. Gorin Sandra Kaye Laughery Gorin
Call Number: Special Collections Reference (Non-Circulating) (F457.B2 G6626x 2003 )
Publication Date: c1997-2003
Mt. Moriah African American Cemetery : Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky by Don. Burris
Call Number: Special Collections Reference (Non-Circulating) (F457.W2 D326655x 2015 )
Publication Date: 2015
Mt. Moriah Cemetery : a history and census of Bowling Green, Kentucky's African-American cemetery by Jonathan. Jeffrey Mike Wilson; Ray Buckberry; Lynn E. Niedermeier 1956-; Sue Lynn Stone McDaniel 1959-
Call Number: Helm-Cravens Library Reference (Non-Circulating) (F457.W2 J454x 2002 )
Publication Date: 2002
Barren County, Kentucky African-American deaths 1873-1911 : Including also Allen, Cumberland, Edmonson, Hart, Metcalfe and Monroe Counties by Sandra Kaye Laughery. Gorin
Call Number: Special Collections Reference (Non-Circulating) F457.B2 G6627 2016
Publication Date: 2016
Afro-American marriage bonds : photostatic copies of the originals, January 1870 through December 1873, from the files of the Barren County, Ky. County Clerk's Office by Michelle Bartley. Gorin
Call Number: Special Collections Stacks (Non-Circulating) (F457 .B2 G6625x 1992 )
Publication Date: 1992
African-American Civil War soldiers : Allen, Barren, Cumberland, Edmonson, Hart, Metcalfe, Monroe and Warren County by Sandra Kaye Laughery. Gorin
Call Number: Special Collections Reference (Non-Circulating) (E585.A35 G67 2016 )
Publication Date: 2016

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